Add-on with i18n message in CSS gets validation warning
danny0838 opened this issue · 2 comments
Describe the problem and steps to reproduce it:
An add-on with i18n message in CSS gets validation warning.
What happened?
An add-on with i18n message in a CSS file, such as:
ul { padding-__MSG_@@bidi_start_edge__: 20px; }
gets an Unknown word warning during validation.
What did you expect to happen?
No warning should shown.
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This was introduced in #53. The value at this point is unclear. Invalid CSS is not much different from invalid HTML: bugs that results in broken markup/appearance should be detected by the extension developer. Even if a CSS file is syntactically valid, there may be other issues. We should remove https://github.com/mozilla/addons-linter/blob/b7e0523ee331f0961807cef9df8cb064f41a6ded/src/scanners/css.js
I'm not opposed to CSS syntax checking, as a CSS syntax error usually imply an unconscious mistake and a potential error, and providing a check and warning is reasonable.
The problem is that, in the context of an extension, CSS syntax warning on a I18N message is obviously a false positive. If this is not fixed, developers can only choose to ignore the warning —and a potentially existing real CSS syntax error—when a CSS file has I18N.
Not sure how I18N message is handled for an extension CSS. It it's a simple pattern search and replace, maybe this issue can be easily fixed by running the CSS checker after applying the same search and replace of a CSS file.